Sentence examples for tahiti from inspiring English sources

Melville compares the ocean to "the horrors of the half-known life" surrounding each soul's "one insular Tahiti".

TAHITI today is not the calm South Seas paradise depicted in Paul Gauguin's paintings of languid Polynesian women.

From there I camped along New Zealand's coast, starting at Cape Reinga, went on to sleep out on beaches in Fiji and Tahiti, bedded down on ledges in America's national parks, slept by the fireside, Bedouin-style, in Wadi Rum and under a lavvu – a traditional Sami tent, a bit like a wigwam – in Finland in -40C.

In addition to Adamu, Reynald Temarii, from Tahiti, also had his appeal against a one-year ban for breaching Fifa rules thrown out by the appeals committee while the three former Fifa ethics committee members Slim Aloulou, Amadou Diakite and Ahongalu Fusimalohi, had their suspensions reduced but the decisions upheld.

Gauguin, meanwhile, was preparing to travel to Tahiti.

For example, the PVS recruited a Micronesian traditional navigator who trained a Hawaiian staff member in the art of navigating without instruments; that staff member then replicated a voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti, with no instruments.

Finally, there is Afghanistan's national cricket team, which in early October qualified for the 50-over World Cup for the first time.On the face of it, the Afghan cricketers have much in common with Tahiti and Ms Flipkens.

But he had an image of Tahiti in his head.

More than 2,000 miles out, a flock of small white terns skimmed past the Hokule'a heading for the still invisible Mataiva Atoll, next to Tahiti.

Which brings us back to his reference in "Moby Dick" to "the one insular Tahiti" amidst the surrounding horrors of the ocean.

He also knows more about the Pacific than the crew of the Essex did, and about why in the Desolate Region, so-called, they failed to catch fish.But the most excruciating thing he knows is something the crew of the Essex should have known too: that the island of Tahiti, which they could have reached, was not occupied by cannibals.